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After being a year with that firm he decided to commence business in Manchester on his own account as a consulting engineer, and in 1875 he went into partnership with Mr. H. Sherley-Price, and carried on business with him as consulting engineers, valuers, and auctioneers of machinery, under the style of Wheatley Kirk, Price and Goulty, with offices in Manchester and London.

In 1899 he retired from business, and went to reside at Walberswick, near Southwold, Suffolk, where his death took place suddenly from heart failure on 31st December 1904, at the age of seventy.